Police said the four men knew the residents of the home on West Chestnut Street and planned to rob them when Taniyah, a fourth-grader and cheerleader at Washington Park Intermediate School, was shot early Monday morning. She was pronounced dead at Washington Hospital.

"I knew all three of them. I'm heartbroken by the people it was, but at the end of the day, justice is justice," said Curtis Thomas Jr., Taniyah's father. "I want it served anyway it comes."

Washington city police said Goehring and Cochran kicked in a downstairs door, walked upstairs to the second floor and fired shots. A bullet went through the apartment's solid wood door and hit Taniyah, who lived there with her baby brother, her mother and her mother's boyfriend.

"We believe she was asleep when the incident began, and she got up and moved throughout the apartment," Detective Daniel Stanek said. "She was struck by at least one bullet."

Cochran and Malik Thomas were arrested Wednesday on unrelated drug charges and were already being held in the Washington County Jail. Goehring and White were taken into custody at a home Friday.

"I made a promise to her that the people who did this will pay," Thomas said. "I will dedicate my life so that my daughter is never forgotten."